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Papers by Matthew Prewett

Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Apr 27, 2017

Central Group Education Association, Apr 1, 2019

The relationship between team cohesion and team performance has been extensively studied, but beh... more The relationship between team cohesion and team performance has been extensively studied, but behavioral mediators of this relationship have not been adequately assessed. This study proposed that backup behavior mediates the relationship between team cohesion and team performance. In addition, it was also hypothesized that team goal commitment would moderate the relationship between team cohesion and team backup behavior. 138 participants forming 46 teams of three were assigned to one of fours conditions to test this framework: high cohesion/high goal commitment, high cohesion/low goal commitment, low cohesion/high goal commitment, and low cohesion/low goal commitment. Results indicated no significant differences between conditions. However, correlations and regressions based upon self and observer ratings suggest that team cohesion and team goal commitment, but not backup behavior, hold strong relationships to team errors. Finally, exploratory analyses revealed an interaction between team cohesion and team goal commitment on team performance indices. Lowest performance occurred in teams with low cohesion and low goal commitment, but there were no apparent difference between high and low goal commitment in teams with high cohesion. Implications of these results are discussed in the paper.

25th Annual Conference, Apr 1, 2010

30th annual conference of the society for industrial and organizational psychology, Apr 1, 2015

32nd Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Apr 1, 2017

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (29th Annual Meeting), May 15, 2014

International Journal of Engineering Education, 2017

Early exposure to engineering research and design experience is crucial for students as they ente... more Early exposure to engineering research and design experience is crucial for students as they enter college. However, this hasbeen limited to the secondary school curriculum, as the majority of secondary school teachers lack the engineeringbackground and experience. Addressing this challenge, this paper presents an engineering research experience programthat took place over a span of three years to better prepare 36 secondary school teachers with support from 7 engineeringfaculty members. This program provides the teachers a broad overview of engineering design enhances their hands-ondesign abilities, and educates them to translate their learnings from engineering design experiences to lesson plans for theirrespective classrooms. Through the numerous feedback surveys, reflection sessions, lesson plans designed, outreach anddissemination activities, it was evident that 36 participant teachers were able to gain a better understanding of engineeringdesign, enhance their respective class...

Academic Medicine, 2021

PROBLEM There is an unmet need for economically feasible, valid, reliable, and contextually relev... more PROBLEM There is an unmet need for economically feasible, valid, reliable, and contextually relevant assessments of interprofessional collaborative knowledge and skills, particularly at the early stages of health professions education. This study sought to develop and gather content and internal structure validity for an Interprofessional Situational Judgement Test (IPSJT), a tool for the measurement of students' interprofessional collaborative intentions during the early stages of their professional development. APPROACH After engaging in an item development and refinement process (January-June 2018), an 18 question IPSJT was administered to 953 first-year students enrolled in 10 different health professions degree programs at the University of Florida Health Science Center in October 2018. The IPSJT's performance was evaluated using item-level analyses, item difficulty, test-retest reliability, and exploratory factor analysis. OUTCOMES Seven hundred thirty-seven (77.3%) students consented to the use of their data. Student IPSJT scores ranged from 0-69, averaging 42.68 (standard deviation = 12.28), with some statistically significant differences in student performance by health professions degree program. IPSJT item difficulties ranged from .13-.91. Once one item with poor properties was excluded from analysis, the IPSJT demonstrated an overall reliability of .63. Students were slightly more successful at identifying the least effective than the most effective responses. Test-retest reliability provided evidence of consistency (r = .50, P < .001) and similar item-difficulty across administrations. An exploratory factor analysis indicated a 3-factor model with multiple cross-factor loadings. NEXT STEPS This work represents the first step toward the development of a valid, reliable IPSJT for early learners. The emergent 3-factor model provides evidence that multiple competencies can be assessed in early learners via this tool. Additional research is necessary to build a more robust question bank, explore different scoring and response methods, and gather additional sources of validity evidence, including relations to other variables.

It is common practice to rely on a convenience sample of subject matter experts (SMEs) when devel... more It is common practice to rely on a convenience sample of subject matter experts (SMEs) when developing a scoring key for situational judgment tests (SJTs). However, the defining characteristics of what constitutes a SME are often ambiguous and inconsistent across studies. Other research fields have adopted crowdsourcing methods to replace or reproduce judgments thought to require subject matter expertise. Therefore, we conducted the current study to compare crowdsourced scoring keys to SME-based scoring keys for three SJTs in different domains, each varying in job-relatedness. Our results indicate that scoring keys derived from crowdsourced samples are likely to converge with keys based on SME judgment, regardless of test content (correlations ranging from r = .88 to .94). We observed the weakest agreement among individual MTurker and SME ratings for the more job-specific Medical SJT (classification consistency = 61%) but the aggregate scoring keys remained highly correlated. We obs...

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 2020

Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2016

Increasingly, numerous universities have identified benefits of flipped learning environments and... more Increasingly, numerous universities have identified benefits of flipped learning environments and have been encouraging instructors to adapt such methodologies in their respective classrooms, at a time when departments are facing significant budget constraints. This article proposes an instructional design framework utilized to strategically enhance traditional flipped methodologies in a first-year engineering course, by using low-cost technology aids and proven pedagogical techniques to enhance student learning. Implemented in a first-year engineering course, this modified flipped model demonstrated an improved student awareness of essential engineering concepts and improved academic performance through collaborative and active learning activities, including flipped learning methodologies, without the need for expensive, formal active learning spaces. These findings have been validated through two studies and have shown similar results confirming that student learning is improved b...

Gezinstherapie Wereldwijd, 2018

Banazi Black grape which is almost never consumed freshly is a very important, seed bearing, loca... more Banazi Black grape which is almost never consumed freshly is a very important, seed bearing, local type which is directly dried in the sun with its cluster without any processing. Ungrafted (5 years old and over 40 years old) and grafted (41B, 99R, 1103P and 110R) Banazi Black grape varieties which were 5 years old were used in the study conducted in Turkey, Malatya, Yesilyurt district, Konak town. The grapevines in the farmer vineyards, grown in dry conditions, were established in the form of blocks, serpene cultivation was applied on the stocks, and cane training was made. The photochemical characteristics of the dried grape belonging to the rootstocks used in 5 year-old Banazi Black grape which were ungrafted (5 and 40 years old ungrafted) and grafted with 41B, 99R, 1103P, 110R rootstocks were investigated in this study. It was determined from the analyzed phenolic compounds that gallic acid was 4.10-14.43 mg/kg; catechin was 146.87-306.87 mg/kg, rutin was 38.96-78.15 mg/kg, naringin was 22.54-50.97 mg/kg, phloridzin was 40.03-107.72 mg/kg, and quercetin was 0.47-1.67 mg/kg. Total antioxidant capacity in total phenolic substance rootstocks was determined to be 0.19-0.22 mg trolox equivalent/g; gallic acid/g was 7.51-21.66 mg. The amount of resveratrol was between 0.19-1.30 mg/kg among the rootstocks. The differences between the rootstocks were statistically significant in terms of phenolic compounds. 40 year-old ungrafted vinestock took a higher value when compared to the other rootstocks in terms of phenolic compounds.

Group & Organization Management, 2016

Personality traits are often theorized to affect team performance by predisposing members to perf... more Personality traits are often theorized to affect team performance by predisposing members to perform individual-level behaviors. Yet, member personality traits may also affect team performance by creating contextual influences on member behaviors. As such, the purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of team personality composition on individual-level performance using hierarchical linear modeling. A range of effects for team-level elevation were observed, but few effects emerged for team-level heterogeneity. Main effects from elevation in Extraversion and Openness to Experience were consistently observed across analyses. The main effects from team elevation in Conscientiousness and Agreeableness, however, were only observed prior to controlling for individual-level trait scores or when using a group-mean centering method for individual-level trait scores. In addition, elevation in Conscientiousness and heterogeneity in Emotional Stability moderated the relationships b...

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2016

Recent reports in the field of medicine have recommended the use of teamwork training to reduce t... more Recent reports in the field of medicine have recommended the use of teamwork training to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities from human error. Teamwork training in the field of medicine appears promising, but few empirical evaluations of such programs have confirmed their effectiveness. Existing teamwork training studies have tended to use a traditional, lecture approach to training, with positive but modest results upon teamwork attitudes and behaviors. The current study developed and evaluated a more active teamwork training protocol for trauma resuscitation teams. The training protocol supplemented several medical and non-medical role plays with a lecture and guided discussion for feedback. Forty-one residents participated in the training on one of two days (groups) and completed evaluation measures prior to and immediately following the training program. The training was evaluated with measures of trainee reactions, attitudes towards teamwork, and responses to a situati...

Team Performance Management: An International Journal, 2012

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